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Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Atlanta is going through a complete rebuild so I would hope the Pacers would finish ahead of them. Atlanta may struggle to make the playoffs. I am more concerned about the teams that improved and I am less than convinced the Pacers can beat like Miami, Boston, both, NY teams and Philadelphia.......

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Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

I actually am one of the few people who feel like Atlanta didn't really lose all that much. Josh Smith has already kind of taken over as the go-to guy on that team and Joe Johnson wasn't worth what they were paying him. I feel like Lou Williams could make up for a lot of what they lost with Johnson. I hope we can finally dominate them this year though.

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

I actually am one of the few people who feel like Atlanta didn't really lose all that much. Josh Smith has already kind of taken over as the go-to guy on that team and Joe Johnson wasn't worth what they were paying him. I feel like Lou Williams could make up for a lot of what they lost with Johnson. I hope we can finally dominate them this year though.

I'm with you, assuming Horford comes back strong. Atlanta was a great team with JJ and while not quite as good...they still qualify as a threat to the Pacers.

...but I also agree we have our hands full with Philly and other teams. I will say it may be easier with Dwight in LA though if we are talkiing Orlando. All things considered, I think the battles are going to be really good in the east this coming year.

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

I remember at least 1 game where we beat them last year, didn't we have a winning % against them last year?
Anyway, we should be able to beat them this year, yeah... but Atlanta aren't really all that great

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

I actually am one of the few people who feel like Atlanta didn't really lose all that much. Josh Smith has already kind of taken over as the go-to guy on that team and Joe Johnson wasn't worth what they were paying him. I feel like Lou Williams could make up for a lot of what they lost with Johnson. I hope we can finally dominate them this year though.

JJ was certainly overpaid. Nonetheless, he is a big time gamer. They will definitely miss him.

Josh Smith is erratic and not the proven day in day out scorer that JJ is. I am a fan of Lou Williams but he isn't the end of game closer Joe Johnson has become.

Atlanta will be worse than last year, but we were already becoming better than them last year.

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"I like our group of people," Ainge told USA Today. "I'm trying to teach them about basketball, and they're trying to teach me about analytics."

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Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

I am going to go on record and say that Teague will start by the end of the season. I will also go on record and say that if they are struggling early, Josh Smith will demand a trade. I will finish this prediction. He will go to Dallas for Mayo and Marion.

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

That's not exactly fair. Atlanta may be a fairly large city (double the size of Indy), but the majority of people in Atlanta are actually from other states...who already have their team. I'm in Atlanta, but I'm from Indiana, so I'm def part of that group. I root for my Pacers and will only go to a Hawks game if I get tickets for free of if the Pacers are in town.

Add to that the south mostly seems to care about college football and only college football. Meh. I went to IU, so I never got into college football...gimme basketball!

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Atlanta is going through a complete rebuild so I would hope the Pacers would finish ahead of them. Atlanta may struggle to make the playoffs. I am more concerned about the teams that improved and I am less than convinced the Pacers can beat like Miami, Boston, both, NY teams and Philadelphia.......

What makes the Knicks, Nets, and Sixers better than the Pacers? You do realize that even Las Vegas betting odds has the Pacers odds of coming out of the East higher than these three, right? And even ESPN, the master of picking the bigger markets to beat the smaller markets, has the Pacers as third in the East. Can you give your logic as to how these teams are better than the Pacers?

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Should I make a thread proclaiming the Pacers can beat Charlotte this year, or is that going too far out on a limb?

"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Should I make a thread proclaiming the Pacers can beat Charlotte this year, or is that going too far out on a limb?

Yeah, I am also wondering why Atlanta was chosen. I would like to discuss the three teams who are in are way (Miami, Boston, and Chicago). Those are the three we have to worry about. Not Atlanta, Philly, New York, or Brooklyn.

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Yeah, I am also wondering why Atlanta was chosen. I would like to discuss the three teams who are in are way (Miami, Boston, and Chicago). Those are the three we have to worry about. Not Atlanta, Philly, New York, or Brooklyn.

Re: IMO, the Pacer's can beat ATL this season.

Yeah, I am also wondering why Atlanta was chosen. I would like to discuss the three teams who are in are way (Miami, Boston, and Chicago). Those are the three we have to worry about. Not Atlanta, Philly, New York, or Brooklyn.

Atlanta is the team that the Pacers are most often compared to in terms of the steps they have made and where they might fall in the conference. Atlanta has players who match up well against their corresponding Pacer players, with some here believing they are no-brainer better than their Pacers counterparts and some believing it isn't that simple.

Atlanta and Indiana also have a long history of being each others' spoilers, from the 1994 second round on. When Atlanta was down they often gave Indiana fits and vice-versa.

It isn't a bad question to contemplate, really.

BillS

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...